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Starting points for a new legislation concerning mental patients

J.W.M. Jongmans

A new legislation concerning mental patients ought to have two main purposes: 1 — the protection of certain mental patients, who by their mental illness are not able to protect and promote their own interests in a proper way and 2 — the protection...

The role of aggression in psychosomatic symptom formation

H. Musaph

The concept of aggression has many contents. As a result the operational definition of different research workers varies considerably. We have confined ourselves to aggression as an emotion. The possibilities of quantifying emotions are still insu...

Treatment and follow-up of children's encopresis

E.A.K. Wauters, W.H.G. Wolters

In this description of the treatment and follow-up of children's encopresis, the integrated medical and psycho-social approach is emphasized. Also described are a number of issues which, to the authors' opinion, are crucial for the psycho-social c...

Annotations on anorexia nervosa

E. Verbeek

The author contests the current opinion about anorexia nervosa concerning the family structure in which the patients grow up. The mother is, according to his experience, not a dominering but rather an uncertain personality, usually with more or le...

From the Central Register of Psychiatrie Inpatients (M.2)

R. Giel, J.R. van Weerden-Dijkstra

A survey of the diagnostic classification of the inpatients on admission and at discharge shows an agreement of 83%. The more significant shifts in classification occur between the 'other psychoses' and the personality disorders, and between the '...

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Wet Arbeidsongeschiktheid en Psychotherapie: het grote misverstand

A.A. Fischer

In the Netherlands psychotherapeutic help is made financially possible a.o. by the Disablement Insurance Act of 1967. Since social institutions are offering financial help in an organized way the problem of criteria has arisen. What is the value o...

The situation of the housewife who has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital

A.J. Uyterlinde

In the treatment and rehabilitation of the housewife who has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital, certain specific problems can arise which stem from the Pact that her home situation to which she will return, usually remains unchanged. Under t...

Piracetam in a case of acute cerebral hypoxemia

F. Bruynooghe, A.J. Tanghe

A 57 years old patient was admitted to hospital with melancholia induced by Reserpine. He improved rapidly on Anafranil infusions. The neurological and internal conditions were normal on admission. Patient choked with food, became unconscious and ...

From the Central Register of Psychiatrie Inpatients (M. 3)

R. Giel, J.R. van Weerden-Dijkstra

In 1972 the law regarding the certification of psychiatric patients was changed. The expected decrease in the number of certified patients did take place. However, a simular, although less dramatic, trend could already be observed before 1972.

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In search for sociotherapy, ten years asylum experience

H. Ronse

We compared two clinics. On one side a new neurosis institution, on the other side a classic psychiatric institution. The efforts to set up a therapeutic community are described. Team-spirit rises when one is able to institute conferences. This is...

In quest of optimal aftercare for the psychotherapeutic community

J. Hartman

On the basis of current practice at 'Zuideroord' (mental hospital 'Vogelenzang'), this paper formulates an answer to the question whether 'traditional' aftercare is still adequate in a situation increasingly characterized by work in accordance wit...

Psychiatry still in discussion, a few culture-philosophical considerations round possible developments

I. E. I. M. van Eynde

Mental sickness and the approach of it by public assistance, continously onght to be interpretated throughout the entire culture field. The history of mental sickness is also history of a culture. The changeability of our present culture is also i...

Transference, Countertransference and Acting-out in Psychoanalysis

A. de Blécourt

The development of the transference concept is described and studied from structural genetic, dynamic and adaptive points of view. A sketch is given of the development of a transference neurosis during treatment, and of the difference between tran...

De onschuldwaan in de (forensische) psychiatrie

R.C. Hoekstra

The problems of the delusion of innocence in forensic psychiatry are dealt with in connection with three cases. The importance of early, adequate psychiatric care for delinquents, who fancied themselves innocent is mentioned:

A person with a...

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